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A review of the degrowth literature (561 studies) find that 'few studies use quantitative or qualitative data...' and those that do 'tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases'. Finally, 'large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis'.

A good read. It’s an accurate treatment of what the second law of thermodynamics means and how it relates to how life itself functions and what that means for humans. Entropy is not really disorder

Finally, some good fucking news.

Jesus, the comments here are abysmal from what I can tell.

I'm no doomer, but we need to do something about this, even on the grassroots level.

Like a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic plot, rising temperatures are causing fungi to mutate in ways that not only make them hyper-infectious but drug-resistant, too.

This is deeply concerning as our world warms, Nanjing Medical University researcher Jingjing Huang and colleagues warn.

“The danger and importance of new fungal pathogens is believed to be seriously underestimated,” they write in their new paper.

“Temperature-dependent mutagenesis can enable the development of pan-drug resistance and hypervirulence in fungi, and support the idea that global warming can promote the evolution of new fungal pathogens.”

the scientist who discovered this is MIT's Gang Chen who was one of the main victims of the FBI's "China initiative", the McCarthy-like initiative where they went after scientists of Chinese descent.

Chang'E-6 samples will answer 6 important questions

1. The age of SPA. The CE-6 mission is expected to collect the impact melt formed during the formation of SPA to accurately obtain its age.
2. The age of the Apollo crater. There is a high probability that the CE-6 samples contain impact melt from the Apollo crater. The radiometric ages of SPA basin and Apollo crater can greatly promote the study of the early lunar impact flux.
3. The major mineral composition of the lunar mantle. The formation process of SPA basin exposes lunar mantle material, but due to the lack of observation of large-scale olivine, some studies speculate that the main component of the lunar mantle is low-calcium pyroxene rather than olivine like the earth. Geochemical analysis of the samples will help to uncover this mystery.
4. The lunar impact flux function. With the radiometric ages of the samples and the crater size-frequency distribution of the areas represented by the samples, the lunar impact flux function can be further optimized. This is the only sample from the far side of the Moon, and it is of great significance for studying the distribution of lunar impact fluxes.
5. The volcanic eruption inside SPA basin. Current research shows that the thickness of the lunar crust inside SPA is small, but there is no large-scale basalt exposure inside. Geochemical research on CE-6 samples, especially the comparison with the chemical composition of basalt on the nearside of the Moon, will help solve this problem.
6. The asymmetry of the Moon. By combining the above analyses, the long-standing issue of the asymmetry between the near and far sides of the Moon on the crust thickness, volcanic activity, internal structure is expected to be resolved, which has perplexed geologists for decades.

https://www.cell.com/the-innovation/pdf/S2666-6758(24)00101-2.pdf

Part 1: Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38684233/

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